CBS at TCA: Critics Heat Up Over Diversity Issues

Beverly Hills, CA – CBS’ day at the Summer 2016 Television Critics Association tour opened on a heated note, as Entertainment President Glenn Geller found himself on the receiving end of a torrent of tough questions about the lack of diversity among the show-runners and lead actors in each of the network’s new fall series -- all of them white, a circumstance that invites exactly the kind of exchange that took place yesterday morning. The session -- the first out of the hundreds that preceded it during the previous two weeks to ignite over a serious industry issue -- roused the slumbering mass of critics and reporters who had been in the usual collective stupor that comes at the tail end of every TCA tour.